January 2019
General AI: Where Machine, Humanity, and Society Intersect
In this presentation Shita will share his research in AGI and its global impact. He will layout one potential future scenario and a roadmap to get there as well the ethical and moral guidelines that will face designers his team is engaging with this year.
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AI-driven Images in Radiation Therapy
New products for treating cancer with radiation therapy can provide therapists with high quality MR images in real-time, which can enable them to detect patient and tumor movements. This, in turn, creates the potential for much more precise and effective treatments for cancer.
Find out more »March 2019
Designing the Internet of Everybody
Ali Colleen Neff, Ph.D, CultureEncode This talk revisits the question of, to recall the work of fellow digital anthropologist Genevieve Bell, the “mess and mythology” embedded in smart technologies, and asks how we can harness the power of humanity’s global imagination to offer not only access to, but authorship of, the internet of things to everybody. Learn More
Find out more »April 2019
Smart Cities: Design Thinking and New Technologies that Seek to Address the Wicked Problems of Everyday Life
Ann Marcus, Marcus Consulting Group As citizens and design thinkers what role do/should we play in how the latest smart cities technologies--sensors, cameras, platforms, aggregation and analytics algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence--transform how we live, work, play, learn, love, see, move, engage and understand our world--and how it understands us? I'll tell you what I know and then let's discuss! Learn More
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Researching Smart + Spatial Computing
Hannah Scurfield, UX Design Research and Strategy for Spatial Computing, eBay Join this session to hear about experimenting with user experience design research techniques and how people interact with augmented and mixed reality experiences. Learn More
Find out more »June 2019
Two Years Later
Two years into this adventure of augmenting our household and my work life I have an amazing story to share with you.
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A Designer’s Work is Never Done
Emily Bowman, General Motors Let’s explore how user experience designers can enhance vehicle development by bringing human-centered methods to the complex process of designing the mobility solutions of tomorrow. Learn More
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August 7, 2019 Member Appreciation
Join us for the Game Night at the Guradian Games for an evening of food, fun, table top and group gaming, while enjoying adult beverages.
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Empathy, Design and the Future of AI
Ms. Rutland will speak on the power of empathy in the process of innovation as well as what we can learn from history about how to profoundly alter the way we approach AI as a design industry.
Find out more »October 2019
Humans FTW
Rebecca Priebe, RealWear Using empathetic design approaches we can create a world of intelligent environments that give us human-centric, adaptable information and control – making each and every individual’s life more enjoyable and productive no matter what we choose to do with our time – work, play, live. Learn More
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